New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-25
coast being seriously affected by these visitors.
May 1887 be such O onei

May 1887 be such onei
Even IN tie event that the Court Of Appeals
sustains the General Term decision In the F1ske
McCiraw will case Cornell will remain one Of the
richest colleges in the country. The Utica
Herald says its capital already exceeds $4,000
| 900, which sanguine men expect to see increased
by profits to s1O,OOO,o0O.
Mr.. Chamberlain has remained on the Unionist
fence so long that he has forgotten how to box
the political Compass.
question Of conscience agitates some social
circles III Chicago II the Commissioners were
guilty what shall be said of the men not in
official positions who aided them in their thefts
Robinson, the man who sold groceries to the
county, has been invited by the Illinois Club
to resign his membership, and 1.-The Inter-Ocean"
demands that others OF the same class shall be
made to feel the weight Of their crimes by social
penalties, when no others are available. Why
Isn't this good advice for this latitude? Are
there no unsettled accounts. professional and
social growing out Of the Sharp case?
The Hon. Henry b. Metcalf of PawtuclSet, r.
l., who has been known for many years as q be-
lever in Prohibition, but as a believer also in
practical methods of temperance work in politics,
has written an able letter in reply to the Rev.
Dr. Miners recent attack upon the anti-saloon
movement within the Republican party Of Massa-
chusetts. Mr.. Metcalf shows forcibly the folly
of hoping to advance the cause OF temperance by
bringing into power the party that has always
been the special friend of the liquor power, and
speaking as Prohibitionist reminds DR.. Miner
that within six or seven years seven States,
which gave 170,222 plurality for Blaine, have
given direct popular vote of 1904 majority for
Prohibition, casting 045,248 votes for undiluted
Prohibition, while giving only 49,094svotes for
ST. John. He says with good deal of pertinency,
that he knows of no authority competent to
declare that the nearly 100000 who did not vote
for st. John are not in every way as loyal to
the cause OF Prohibition as the 10000 who did
vote for him. Kansas Is loyal to Prohibition,
and yet she gave st. John less than per cent
Of her vote. If the 100000 believe that moro
can be gained for temperance within the Re-
publican party than outside of it, their opinion
certainly seems entitled to greater respect than
that Of the 40, 900 who because they cannot get
everything at once prefer to lose it all Twenty
to one is large majority.
Now that English Members of Parliament are
contributing to the fund of the Irish National
League, we shall probably hear less from the
London press about the wickedness of American
financial aid to the Separatists.'
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes cOnfesses that there
Is a good deal in a name In letter to James
r. Randall author of Maryland Ny Maryland!"
congratuatng him upon the genuine ring and
life-rl1c spirit in that lyric" the Doctor says
he only regretted he could not write
Massachusetts,! My Massachusetts," that would
have been at once "as musical and effective"
I'm what was for him "the right side in the
armed controversy" Massachusetts is a good
name to conjurc WITH but Thythmicaly it pre-
sents difficulties
The Hon Francis Wharton's digest of the
International Law of the United States" receives
high praise from of the best of the English
"1hc Elinburgh." The reviewer cites
il as another example Of the superiority of Amer-
can legal literature over that of England, and
commends the action of Congress in ordering
the compilation Of this volume. He laments the
absence of n similar record from Official archives
of the diplomacy of England, and frankly
cedes the infcriorfty of his country in legal
writings and especially the literature of inter-
national law. DR.. Wharton he compliments In
unmeasured terms, saying that the Digest is
another volume added TO the list of standard
works which are chiefly associated with the
names of Kent, Story and Wheaton. The review
which follows this tribute to TIE learned COM
piler is n critical account Of American diplomacy
from the English point of view with severe
structures upon various efforts of the State De-
partmcnt to evadc the Clayton. iiulwer Treaty !
DR.. Wharton receives throughout most generous
treatment, the reviewer apparently being lost in
admiration of his grasp of the subject. The dis
putauus Senators who considered the printing of
the Digest a sheer waste OF money will be
amazed by this evidence of foreign appreciation |
As election time approaches the sooted states !
men who want to be vindicated again come to
the fore.
Mr. Russell, who has abandoned the Unionst !
party in consequence Of the Salisbury Govern |
mcnts surrender to Irish landlords, is the candi-
date who contrved to defeat Mr. OBrien in |
South Tyrone at the last election. This was |
the only seat lost by the Parneltes in that |
election, and Mr.. Russell probably the only |
man who could have gained it. His support the |
Government has now aenated by its concessions |
TO the landholding classes
PERSONAL.
Tho lato Agostlno Depretis was always careless |
Df his dress and personal appearance until became
Premier and even then no was dandy. His feet